Louisville City Map Poster

About this print

Louisville map poster

Louisville sits on a bend of the Ohio River, a city shaped by the water that once carried steamboats past its wharf and still defines its northern edge. This Watercolor edition renders Louisville, Kentucky as a street map poster, with soft washes of color that give the city's grid and river curve a quieter, more painterly feel than a standard map.

For anyone who has lived here, studied here, or come back every spring for the first Saturday in May, Louisville carries a lot of memory. It is the home of Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby, the Louisville Slugger bat, and a long bourbon tradition that has made the city a stop for visitors from all over. It is also a place of shotgun houses and Victorian blocks in Old Louisville, of Olmsted-designed parks, and of neighborhoods with their own character, from the Highlands to Germantown to NuLu. A map of the city holds all of that at once, even when the streets are rendered simply.

The Watercolor style suits a city like this one, where history and everyday life run close together. It works well in a living room, a home office, or a hallway where a familiar place deserves a little wall space, and it makes a thoughtful gift for a new graduate, a couple who met here, or someone who has moved away and misses home. The poster is decorative art rather than a navigation aid, meant to be looked at and remembered by rather than followed.

Make a custom map poster of your own route · Did it yourself? Make a poster from your own Strava activity

Route details

Location

Kentucky, United States

Collection

Cityscapes